Agent identity startup Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy
Here’s another early-stage, agent-management startup to watch because of the backgrounds of the founders and the sheer number of big names it has already attracted as investors: Mintive.
Mintive has raised $11 million total, including a newly announced $7 million seed led by Cowboy Ventures. Additional investors include Coatue, Operator Collective, Hustle Fund, and angels include Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, Discovery Loop co-founder and former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, among others.
Mintive was founded by Jiquan Ngiam (pictured above, far right) and Vijay Vasudevan (pictured above far left). Ngiam, Mintive’s CEO, was the founding engineer of Coursera (employee No. 1, hired by Andrew Ng). Ngiam later worked on neural networks at Google Brain. Vasudevan, the company’s CTO, is best known as one of the co-creators of TensorFlow while he was at Google Brain. That was the OG AI training platform that predated PyTorch.
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